Amerique Septentrionalis: Jaillot, 1694

Title: AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALIS Divisee en ses Principales Parties PRESENTE' A MONSEIGNEUR LE DUC DE BOURGOGNE Author: Alexis-Hubert Jaillot, published by Pierre Mortier  Date: 1694 Condition: See description  Inches: 19 x 23 Centimeters: 48.26 x 58.42 Product ID: 308230 Scarce Map of North America, First State Two sheet map by Alexis-Hubert Jaillot is from the Atlas Royal, published by Pierre Mortier.  This storied image was used with improvements from 1674 to 1792.  Borrowing heavily from Guillaume Sanson’s map Amerique Septentrionale of 1669, itself based on Nicolas Sanson’s wall map of 1666.  Jaillot included a very similar map in his Atlas Nouveau, dating to 1674 (Burden 438).  This is a reduced version of that map.  The cartography has not been updated.  The Asian coastline present for most of the life of Sanson's earlier 1650 map of North America is here reinserted. A most interesting deviation occurs with the depiction of the Mississippi, shown with a pronounced